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Too many workers are killed, get injured, or are made ill on-the-job. Overwhelmingly, these deaths, injuries and illnesses are preventable.

The Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSH Act), the principal federal law aimed at reducing on-the-job fatalities, illnesses, and injuries, provides workers with limited rights to initiate and participate in regulatory efforts to make workplaces safer. The Occupational Safety & Health Law Project helps workers and their representatives to exercise these legal rights more effectively.